Hello!
I'm newbee in SAN topic...
I want to connect 2 computers by Fibre Channel connection using HBA
cards like this:

[Win2003serwer]  <=> [WinNT_4.0]
2xHBA_Lsi               2xHBA_Lsi

I want to share hard drives installed on computer with Win2003server by
Fibre Channel to another computer with WinNT_4.0
This will be point-to-point connection.

Should I install some extra application on Win2003server to share this
drivers?

What can I do to see in WinNT_4.0   HDD's (volumens) from second
computer using HBA and Fibre Channel connection?

Thank You,

Bogumil Kosiorek, Warsaw - POLAND

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I wouldn't use NT4 to get this done, and I wouldn't use Fibre Channel
if you are looking to get this done for less than the cost of a fancy
car. Consider iSCSI for this.

Connecting two computers can be done through network protocol i.e. file
sharing via CIFS in the Windows world, or through sharing of
block-level disk.  iSCSI uses the same plumbing/physical wires as file
sharing, but you are sharing blocks instead of files.

Each computer in the scenario above would need an initiator (below)...

NT 4
http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td...dex
.htm

Windows 2003
http://www.microsoft.com/WindowsSer...lt.mspx


and a Target !

WinTarget was recently bought by Microsoft... other choices include
Wasabi Systems.
not sure about NT4 support with these guys.

Here's how to do it
[url]http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/Implementing-iSCSI-Exchange-Server-2003.html[/
url]

iSCSI is being used for low end applications like the one you mention,
as well as critical applications and databases at major companies.

B

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On 9 Mar 2006 07:29:26 -0800, "booggie@wp.pl" <booggie@wp.pl> wrote:

>Hello!
>I'm newbee in SAN topic...
>I want to connect 2 computers by Fibre Channel connection using HBA
>cards like this:
>
>[Win2003serwer]  <=> [WinNT_4.0]
>     2xHBA_Lsi               2xHBA_Lsi
>
>I want to share hard drives installed on computer with Win2003server by
>Fibre Channel to another computer with WinNT_4.0
>This will be point-to-point connection.
>
>Should I install some extra application on Win2003server to share this
>drivers?
>
>What can I do to see in WinNT_4.0   HDD's (volumens) from second
>computer using HBA and Fibre Channel connection?
>
>Thank You,
>
>Bogumil Kosiorek, Warsaw - POLAND

I assume you want to have data integrity so if computer "A" writes to
the disk, you want computer "B" to see the new data, and vise-versa.
If that is the case then you need to purchase some rather expensive
software like Tivoli's SANergy.

If you really need to do this w/o spending a lot of money, then I'd
just add some dedicated 1Gbit networking cards that support binding
between the two PCs, and have the NT box mount the disk as a share on
the W2k3

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Than You for Your advice but do You know any other software similary to
SANergy?

The connection witch I wroted above is only "laboratory" connection.
I don't have storage controlller but I want to check how works
multipathing. I have connected 2 computers with 2 HBAs each one. One
computer (with Win 2k3) will be simulate storage server.

I need a software which let me share HDDs from computer A (Win2k3) to
computer B (winNT_4.0). I don't know how to get this done in Win2k3
without extra software and ... I don't know any software matching to
this problem :-)

This is the point-to-point connection. I used 4 LSIlogic HBA adapters:
7102XP-LC (2 adapters in each computer)

Bogumil Kosiorek

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